The Oxford handbook of new religious movements

Contributors

Overview / James R. Lewis

1. An introduction to new religions / J. Gordon Melton

pt. 1. Modernization and new religions

2. Alternative spiritualities, new religions, and the reenchantment of the West / Christopher Partridge

3. The sociocultural significance of modern new religious movements / Lorne L. Dawson

4. Science and religion in the new religions / Mikael Rothstein

5. Virtually religious : new religious movements and the World Wide Web / Douglas E. Cowan and Jeffrey K. Hadden

pt. 2. Social conflict

6. Violence and new religious movement / David G. Bromley

7. Legal dimensions of new religions / James T. Richardson

8. The North American anti-cult movement : vicissitudes of success and failure / Anson Shupe, David G. Bromley and Susan E. Darnell

9. Something peculiar about France : anti-cult campaigns in Western Europe and French religious exceptionalism / Massimo Introvigne

10. Satanism and ritual abuse / Philip Jenkins

11. Conversion and "brainwashing" in new religious movements / Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins

12. Leaving the fold : disaffiliating from new religious movements / David G. Bromley

pt. 3. Social and psychological dimensions

13. Psychology and the new religious movements / John A. Saliba

14. Millennialism / Richard Landes

15. The mythic dimensions of new religious movements : function, reality construction, and process / Diana G. Tumminia and R. George Kirkpatrick

16. Women in new religious movements / Susan J. Palmer

17. Children in new religious movements / Charlotte E. Hardman

pt. 4. Neo-pagans, UFOs, and other heterodoxies

18. Waiting for the "big beam" : UFO religions and "ufological" themes in new religious movements / Andreas Grünschloss

19. Esotericism in new religious movements / Olav Hammer

20 The dynamics of alternative spirituality : seekers, networks, and "new age" / Steven J. Sutcliffe

21. New religions in East Aisa / Michael Pye

22. Witches, wiccans, and new-pagans : a review of current academic treatments of neo-paganism / Síân Lee Reid and Shelley TSivia Rabinovitch

Index.